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Wednesday Words Reading Series
Wednesday Words: The Braided River Series:
Featuring Timothy Schaffert, 2012 IAF in Literature Distinguished Artist
May 9, 2012, Noon to 1:00 p.m.
The Nebraska Arts Council
Fred Simon Gallery
1004 Farnam St., Lower Level
Omaha, NE
Timothy Schaffert is the author of four novels: “The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters” (winner of the Nebraska Book Award), “The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God” (Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection), “Devils in the Sugar Shop” (New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice) and “The Coffins of Little Hope” (Indie Next pick), all published by Unbridled Books. The New York Times called him “a very American Alexander McCall Smith,” and his work has received favorable reviews from Washington Post, Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, “Studio 360,” NPR’s “Morning Edition,” and several other publications and broadcasts across the country. He is on the faculty of the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and lives in Omaha, where he directs the (downtown) omaha lit fest. His fifth novel, “The Swan Gondola,” is forthcoming from Riverhead/Penguin.
We congratulate Timothy for receiving the Nebraska Arts Council's 2012 Individual Artist Fellowship (IAF) in Literature Distinguished Artist award for his fiction writing. He is our first 2012 IAF in Literature honoree to read for Wednesday Words. This will be a very special event!
Wednesday Words originated in the fall of 2009 as a special reading series featuring award-winning writers from the Nebraska Arts Council's Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature program. The reading series is brought to you by the Nebraska Arts Council and Nebraska independent publisher, The Backwaters Press.
Beginning in 2011, Wednesday Words explores the many voices of contemporary Nebraska writers in the "Braided River Series", a special schedule of readings from award-winning Nebraska writers. The special series continues in 2012.
Spend your lunch hour with the "Braided River" series from Wednesday Words.Treat yourself once a month to a feast for your ears as you listen to some of the finest in Nebraska writing.
Our events are FREE and open to the public.
About The Backwaters Press
The Backwaters Press is an independent, non-profit press based in Nebraska. The press has published numerous award-winning titles, including the anthology Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace (2003), which received two Nebraska book awards, and Nebraska Presence: An Anthology of Poetry, which won a Nebraska Book Award for a poetry anthology. Several poets published by the press have had poems from their books read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac. In 2011, The Backwaters Press won the Nebraska Center for the Book's Jane Geske Award, for its exceptional contribution to the Nebraska literary community.
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